Referencials
The Baldwin ad features an April 24, 2012 appearance by Hovde, then in his first run for U.S. Senate, at the Milwaukee Press Club, where he was asked if he favors "either raising the retirement age and/or cutting benefits for those who are considered wealthy."
The National Republican Senatorial Committee recently claimed in an ad that Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Elissa Slotkin, gave taxpayer money to immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally.
In 2013, economist Henry J. Aaron of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center warned the House Judiciary Committee that a Republican BBA proposal at that time “would negatively impact the economy and threaten the nation’s financial stability.”
Trump’s proposal to end federal taxes on tips (which Vice President Kamala Harris later said she also supports) is aimed at benefiting mostly low-income workers, though some economists doubt it will work.